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mystdancer50

mystdancer50

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Last night, I started reading Called to Stay by Caleb Breakey and thought, "Of course! Just when I decided to leave!" :) Have any of you read this book? What caught my attention was the two types of people he said the book was written for. I am the first type.

The Frustrated: You go to church but are extremely frustrated. The pastor and congregation don't seem to emphasize living a life of full-throttle devotion to Jesus. The church may appear to love God, but when it comes to loving the lost, making disciples, teaching others to follow Jesus, and just longing for God, the body is severely lacking. You care for the people in your church but feel as though they're stuck in mediocrity. Church is a part of their lives, but Jesus is merely a part of their theology. You feel awkward bringing this up in conversation. You're filled with a sense of helplessness. Church no longer feels like a place of worship. You feel you might be better off in another church or perhaps no church at all.

The Sieged: You've left the church. You feel free and strong in your relationship with Christ, but have come under the fire of a Christian siege. Your family and friends worry about you and question your salvation, making it harder than ever to return. They don't understand your desire to follow Jesus and fully commit yourself to him. You're more accepted among the non-religious crowd than the religious crowd - just like Jesus. You wonder whether or not church has lost its relevance.

pp. 15-16
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Do any of you fit into either of these? So far, the book is pretty good...though I'm only a few pages in. :)
 
LovelyU

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Thank you for your words and verses homewardbound, may we all come to know GOD and may we all listen first to JESUS CHRIST, our High Priest! Amen
 
LovelyU

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LovelyU said:
Thank you for your words and verses homewardbound, may we all come to know GOD and may we all listen first to JESUS CHRIST, our High Priest! Amen
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Is that what someone who speaks to you the word of God is called? A Priest? I'm not sure... ?
 
homwardbound

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LovelyU said:
Is that what someone who speaks to you the word of God is called? A Priest? I'm not sure... ?
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Christ is our high Priest that lives forever, in the order of Melchizadek
And our teacher into all truth.
There is only one mediator between God and Man, that is Christ, and none other.
So others that speak are mature or they are not. It matters not, for it is God in the form of the Holy Spirit that teaches truth over error(s)
[h=3]Hebrews 8:11[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)


[SUP]11 [/SUP]and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
So go forth, listen and learn, ask God who, lives in you for to separate truth from error
For God comes to live in all those on the very first day of belief
Ephesians 1:13
in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

how can that be, since I know I am not clean, and could sin again. I mean God is perfect and knows no sin, so how can that be?

Colossians 1:22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

So we thus see this God first loved us, before you and I or anyone else here were ever born. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 2:2 and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.





 
mystdancer50

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I went to church this morning at Freedom Church and God confirmed, mightily, that it is time to leave CLF and begin attending this other church. The most amazing thing: He showed me that He's been listening to the cry of my heart all along.

It is a simple thing, really, to tell oneself that this is true, but when it is confirmed, it seals that truth directly into your soul. Do you know what I mean?
 
homwardbound

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mystdancer50 said:
I went to church this morning at Freedom Church and God confirmed, mightily, that it is time to leave CLF and begin attending this other church. The most amazing thing: He showed me that He's been listening to the cry of my heart all along.

It is a simple thing, really, to tell oneself that this is true, but when it is confirmed, it seals that truth directly into your soul. Do you know what I mean?
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Please just do not stop to seek from God who lives in you to discern truth from error Sister.
For bottom line God is your true teacher to all truth that sets and keeps you free
[h=3]Hebrews 8:11[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

[SUP]11 [/SUP]and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
This is great, just watch out for flesh yours and others to deceive and lose your Faith connection personally between God and you, putting your trust in others over your trust in God through Christ, thanks, /I know Father is Faithful to teach you through all this worldly events here on earth

 
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